Professor Emeritus Tony Ingraffea explained a statewide green energy plan in his keynote address at the President’s Sustainable Campus Committee annual summit Nov. 18, and winners of the Cornell University Partners in Sustainability Award were announced.
Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose realistic Mars rover mission animations have been shown on television news programs the world over, received an Emmy Award nomination for his animation featured in the PBS Nova documentary 'Mars Dead or Alive.'
The Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors reaches out to rural women with an interactive display from Cornell. The display makes its premiere appearance Aug. 11 at Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls.
Free and open to the public, the July 18 event will commemorate the July 1969 landing of NASA's Apollo 11 and man's first steps on the moon. (July 8, 2009)
The Cornell student-led fundraiser 'A Cappella United' hit all the right notes Oct. 12, raising about $2,400 in proceeds for the Cornell United Way. (Oct. 18, 2007)
'Staff Notes,' a new program hosted by Gary Stewart, deputy director of Government and Community Relations, will launch on CornellCast April 8, 1 p.m., focusing on the daily lives of staff members. (April 1, 2010)
Jeffrey S. Lehman will be inaugurated as president of Cornell University in ceremonies on three Cornell campuses around the globe, Oct. 12-16. The events will feature remarks and lectures by the Sheikha of Qatar, national AIDS research leader Anthony Fauci, prize-winning architect Richard Meier and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "Cornell Celebrates a New Beginning" is the theme of the inauguration, in which Lehman, 47, will challenge higher education to provide fresh leadership in areas that are critical to the well-being of all humanity. (September 30, 2003)
Editors' picks for events the week of Dec. 5 include a Christmas concert, alternative gift fair, jazz and music from Istanbul, dance, modern art and an agribusiness conference. (Dec. 5, 2008)